Hi Folks, today I’ll be explaining how Huawei smart campus technology is revolutionizing the education sector. Let’s start by talking the incremental growth of the campus technologies:
· Traditional Campus: Traditional campus used to have a simple paper based manual processes and overall processes were quite slow. Standalone computers were a part of campus.
· Electronic Campus: Major improvement came in the world of education campuses around 2006 when electronic teaching became a norm in a campus. However, most of the processes were still paper based manually processed and response were still delayed. In this stage, LAN has become quite popular and was a part of every campus.
· Digital Campus: ICT planning in departments started to grow and separated purpose-built applications were designed and catered in properly designed datacenters. Fast speed broadband network and Internet IPv4 was readily made available to students on campus.
· Smart Campus: Major transformation came in the campus network when following were properly introduced in the network:
o ICT Planning by school
o Smart teaching and research
o Smart school management
o Cloud computing
o Internet of things
o Ubiquitous wireless
o Smart Perception and control
On high-level, difference between Digital and smart campus network is that digital campus is management based while smart campus is service based. In digital campus, department level policies were designed however in smart campus school level policies are designed. Another difference was that if any fault occurred in the network, it was dealt with passively. However, in smart campus preemptive approach and active optimization is the key.
Features of a Smart University
There are 5 major features of a smart university campus:
1. Advance Teaching and Research
It provides latest and advanced teaching facilities to its faculty and arranges state of the art research facilities. Some of these technologies include:
· Internet of things
· VDI Solutions
· Wireless Projections
· Smart boards
2. Convenient Living
Convenient living on campus include network access everywhere at a fast and stable speed, campus cards, unified communications and free-mobility.
3. Smart Management
University resource planning, principal dashboards, decision support system etc are all part of smart management where decisions are made on the proactive approach instead of reactive approach.
4. Safe Campus
Safe campus includes smart and intelligent video surveillance, facial recognition cameras of the access to the relevant areas.
5. Green Energy
With smart decision boards of timely turn-on, turn-off and timely warnings reduce the energy cost; consequently, saving energy and environment protection.
Keeping above points in view, following are the elements of the smart campus:
Coming to the applications of the smart campus, one the main application is smart classroom. With smart classroom, following services can be offered:
· Mobile learning
· Family learning (distant learning)
· Remote classroom
· VDI Classroom
· Telepresence classroom
Within campus, another frequently used application is the online meeting. Following services can be offered with the smart campus telepresence meeting:
· TP Meeting Room
· Tablet meeting client
· Mobile Phone Meeting Client
· PC (Full video Mode)
· PC (data + Video)
Following diagrams shows the holistic view of the video conferencing scenario in a smart campus:
In conclusion, huawei smart campus solution provides a complete end-to-end solution for the universities and other education campuses.
